Detrital zircon U–Pb–Hf isotopes study of the Lower Carboniferous Anjihai Formation from the northern margin of the Yili Block, NW China

The North Tianshan Accretionary Complex represents a Late Palaeozoic suture between the Junggar Terrane and the Yili Block. We report detrital zircon U–Pb dating and Hf isotope results for a sandstone from the Lower Carboniferous Anjihai Formation in the northern margin of the Yili Block, to reveal the geochronological framework of the northern Yili Block, and discuss the subduction process of the North Tianshan Ocean (NTO). The detrital zircon...